A Long Island man pleaded guilty this week to fatally stabbing his wife in their backyard, even as their teenage son tried to save her life. Ryszard Murawski, 45, pleaded guilty to second degree murder for the stabbing death of 38-year-old Wioleta Murawski in January, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Court documents …
A 65-year-old Long Island man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a social services employee to get into a Suffolk County shelter, where he molested a physically disabled patient. According to Newsday, Alfred Balcerak posed as an employee of the Suffolk Department of Social Services on September 6. He is accused of sexually abusing …
A 50-year-old Long Island man left his 15-year-old daughter waiting in the car while he went in her mother’s home — his ex-wife — and killed her and her boyfriend. Kelly Coppola, 50, and Kenneth Pohlman Jr., 53, were found shot to death at Pohlman’s St. James home after the teenager alerted police, family, and …
Police on Long Island are investigating after several body parts — belonging to a man and a woman — were found in a park in Suffolk County on Thursday. According to the county medical examiner, a woman’s head, parts of two legs, and an arm, and two arms belonging to a man were found, WABC …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
A Long Island man has been charged with two counts of murder after he allegedly stabbed his wife and toddler daughter to death on Sunday. Suffolk County police responded to the home in Brentwood at about 5 p.m., WCBS reported. They found Misbah Batool, 33, and 2-year-old Iazia Zanoor with stab wounds and rushed them …
Update: A Long Island mother and her 3-year-old daughter were found unharmed after they’d been missing since Wednesday morning, WABC reported. No further information was provided. Original story: A Long Island mother and her 3-year-old daughter haven’t been seen since Wednesday morning, and police are asking for help finding them. Alexandra Hill, 38, was last …
Long Island investigators have solved a 42-year-old murder case, a 20-year-old secretary who was on her way home from her job in New York City when she was raped and strangled, her body left near the Bay Shore train station. DNA identified Herbert Rice as the likely suspect in the death of Eve Wilkowitz on …
A New York man accused of luring two teenage girls into his car while pretending to be a police officer told reporters his behavior was caused by drugs and alcohol. Donald Cristiano Jr., 46, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday on charges of second-degree kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child, first-degree criminal impersonation, …
A Long Island man was arrested Friday for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos and photographs of feet from minors in exchange for money, the Suffolk County Police Department said. The district attorney’s office and the police department launched in investigation in the activities of Bradley Garyn, 27, when they received a report that he had …
A Long Island man crashed his car during a police chase on Tuesday and slit his own throat before officers got to his car — and then the story got really weird. Officers headed to the home Bill Farnum shared with his father and sister to inform them of his apparent suicide, only to find …
A 32-year-old New York man stabbed his father to death Thursday as the older man was participating in a Zoom video chat, police said, according to ABC7. Suffolk County police say there were about 20 people on the video at about noon when they saw Dwight Powers, 72, fall over and a naked man come …
